The Association des employeurs maritimes, the employer in the port lockout, has asked for an injunction to limit what Rue Frontenac calls the workers’ freedom of expression in their picketing. A federal mediator is expected to sit down with both parties later this week.
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Mike Finnerty is to come back to Montreal to host Daybreak on CBC again this fall.
Can’t believe I’m blog-scooping Fagstein on this one.
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Brief notice here about a planned renovation for the Hélène de Champlain building over on Île Sainte-Hélène. Expo Lounge did a nice piece about the building in 2008, with photos of the interior and exterior.
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Chris DeWolf does a good summary of the postering by-law story on Spacing and explains how Publicité Sauvage dominates the legal postering areas that have existed. But even though a high court just declared the city’s law damages freedom of expression, the city has said it plans to keep enforcing the law anyway while it decides about a challenge.
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The city has been deciding about a change for the last five years. CDN-NDG said it would try Ottawa’s special postering pillars but that never got off the ground.
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Henry Aubin wags his finger at Montreal’s mañana culture in another of the Gazette’s oddly spaced texts, this one also lightly sprinkled over with extraneous hyphens.
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The Port of Montreal is silenced by a labour conflict for the first time in ten years; the SAQ reassures us that it has plenty of wine stocked up so the strike shouldn’t affect its offerings for several weeks.
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It’s not too clear what’s intended by this description of city-sanctioned places for free expression: I can’t tell whether they mean to cope with the recent Jaggi Singh ruling by creating these official spots for people to put up publicity for events, or if they’re meant more for the expression of individual opinions. I’m not sure whether the writer has any idea what a Tibetan prayer wheel looks like either.
walkerp 11:34 on 2010/07/20 Permalink
So he broke up with his boyfriend? I’m actually not too happy about this news. Mike Finnerty made a great effort and clearly produced results, but as a host, he is always so over-eager and his interview style was often aggressive and repetitive, missing the interesting bits in the need to go for controversy, often when there was none present. I have really been enjoying the current team, with their more relaxed but still interesting approach.
Fagstein 20:26 on 2010/07/20 Permalink
“So he broke up with his boyfriend?”
No: http://blog.fagstein.com/2010/07/20/mike-finnerty-to-host-daybreak-again/
(I slept until 1pm today – sue me)
walkerp 09:46 on 2010/07/21 Permalink
Thanks for the info. I’m going over to your blog to check out the longer story, but I’ll just say this about the boyfriend: choosing Montreal over London, he’s a keeper! :)